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I have updated her mailing address, and included some links to a few services that ship to Spain. Check them out and send Hermana Petru some love!
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Hi there!!
I have updated her mailing address, and included some links to a few services that ship to Spain. Check them out and send Hermana Petru some love!
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Hi there!!
Well this will be my last email from an MTC tomorrow we head to the feild.
I meet my trainer and my mission president and go to work, the work I have been
preparing for these past two months. Crazy stuff. From what I heard they have
been holding transfers for two weeks waiting for us to come out to the field.
Kind of crazy but we will see how it really works out. I leave tomorrow morning
at 6:30 which is like 10:30 your time at night. Our train leaves for Malaga at
7:30. two hour train ride on one of those 200mph trains. First time to do such a
thing I wonder how my motion sickness will like that train ride.
This week we were able to go to the park one last time on monday. To tell
you the truth my companion and I were struggling to go. we had gone so many
times and we felt like we weren´t really getting anything done. well we knew
that we needed to go so we went. On our way there there was another sister,
Sister Marshall, who asked if she could go with us because her companions didn´t
want to be in a trio. We said yes because she had been out in the feild for
three months before and her spanish was amazing. We were able to talk to several
people on the metro. All of these people I started conversations with because
after sunday I had had a great change of heart about being shy and such. I
definately stepped out of my comfort zone and tried to talk to as many people as
I could.
Well as we got to the park Hermana Marshall went to work and set a
great example for us as she talked with people. We gave out three copies of the
Book of Mormon within the first 30 minutes there. These were all very nice
people and I pray that they will call the missionaries because they wouldn´t
give us there information. Well as we were finishing talking to these boy from
the US and giving them plan of salvation pamphlets a gentleman walked up to us.
He told us that he had questions for us about our church. This is completely out
of the ordinary expecially in Spain. He went on to tell us that when he was
younger he had been a monk going to school to be a preist but he left the
catholic church because they did things that were not the same as in the bible
and in Christ´s church. he talked to us about the belief of personal revelation
and receiving the gift of the Holy Ghost by the laying on of hands. That
Christ´s church need prophets and apostles. He then went on to ask us if we
understood. We all smiled and said yes. We were all able to bare witnesses of
out church, our prophet and the Book of Mormon. He took a copy and said he would
read it.
We asked if we could get his number but he wouldn´t give it to us
because he said his wife was jealous and it wouldn´t be good to have girls
calling and asking for him. We said we could send some elders. He said that he
would just call the number for the missionaries in Madrid on the inside cover of
his Book of Mormon. This wonderful experience changed my mission. But I think it
had something to do with my change of heart and repentence process that I went
through the days even hours before going to the park. The ability to realign my
will with my Heavenly Father´s is a lesson I think that most missionaries even
church memebers must go through if they want to draw closer to our Heavenly
Father. Oh how great our Father´s plan. I have been studying about the Atonement
of Christ. I can´t get over how perfect the plan really is. The endless love of
our Father in Heaven. I am so excited to go out and share that love with
the people of Spain. I don´t have much time to expound on this but I will
give you my favorite chapters. Alma 5, 7, and 34. Happy Reading!!!
Love Hermana Petru
Siblings and Friends: I am almost out of time but them me say this. I love
you all. Stay close to the spirit and follow its promptings. The Lord loves you
and wants you to be protected. Pray always. and Be a good boy or good
girl.
With love Hermana Petru
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